Chapter 2 Question

The “one-time pad” cipher which is attributed to Joseph Mauborgne, is perhaps one of the most secure forms of cryptography. If a security company you worked for wanted to use this and was asking for your opinion what would you say?

Solution

the one-time pad is a type of encryption which has been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly.

Each character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a character from a secret random key (or pad) of the same length as the plaintex